Sport: Sporting Venture

St. Louis Cardinal Owner Fred Saigh, dolefully facing 15 months in
prison for income-tax evasion (TIME, Feb. 9), last week made good on
promises to: 1) get out of baseball, and 2) do all he could to keep the
Cardinals where they belongin St. Louis. For $3,750,000after turning
down a bigger offer from minor-league MilwaukeeSaigh sold the
Cardinals to Anheuser-Busch, Inc. The new Cardinal president: August A.
Busch Jr., 53, third-generation boss of the family brewing business.

"Gussie" Busch promised to take an active interest in the club, hailed
hard-riding Manager Eddie Stanky as "one of the greatest managers in
baseball...